Before I Fall
300 Seiten

Mean Girl goes Groundhog Day, finding ethics, true love and inevitable death.

Just lazy writing in many parts. Nothing is ever explained and the author revels wayy too much in the final self sacrifice. Eugh.

The Silkworm
576 Seiten

Nice reading! I really enjoyed this case, even though it was based in the literary world (which most authors cannot really write about well). Cormoran continues to be a really cool lead – neither a hero, nor an anti-hero, nor some kind of Mary Sue.

Good tone and settings really drew me in.

The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
973 Seiten

I didn't enjoy this book at all – some characters were fun, but the story was terribly flat, easy to predict and boring. Add in the length of the book and the semi-interesting rambling on architecture (seriously, I enjoyed a book on cathedral building a few years ago, but this pseudo mix of literature and facts was just annoying). Most characters were very flat aswell (good vs evil, bah), and overall I could have spent my time much better.

The Casual Vacancy
510 Seiten

I cannot call this book enjoyable, because it was horribly depressing, but it was spot on writing that really drew me in. Rowling apparently has a gift to protrait real life people (both in the Cormoran Strike books and here).